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Date:      Thu, 5 Dec 2002 10:55:16 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Wilkinson,Alex" <Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        alex <lex@adelaide.on.net>, "" <alpha@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: UDMA ICRC error reading fsbn 78165297
Message-ID:  <20021205105408.O43610-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au>
In-Reply-To: <15854.2270.830291.736048@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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Why do people always refer to Alpha pws 500au's as "miata" ?


	>Why?  Well, alphas are electrinically noisy, and physically cramped.
	>The 500au in particular was designed by some sort of sadist who wanted
	>things to look pretty and didn't give a damn how things worked on the
	>inside.  If I had a $1.00 for every drop of blood I ever lost by
	>skinning my knuckles inserting or removing drives or pci cards from
	>miatas, I'd be rich.


 - aW

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